Personal Spending on Transportation

Personal Spending on Transportation

Personal spending on transportation
measures consumption of transportation by households. It is also a component
of gross domestic product. The historic series is a signal of long-term
structural changes.

NOTE: The 2009 revision of the National
Economic Accounts combined "Motor vehicle fuels, lubricants, and
fluids" with "Fuel oil and other fuels." For the 2002-2006
period, the "Motor vehicle fuels, lubricants, and fluids" component
accounted for 93% of the combined total.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau
of Economic Analysis, National
Income and Product Accounts, available at http://www.bea.gov/ as of August 2010.